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Epstein and the DEA: The Investigation You Never Heard About · The Epstein Chronicles

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Speaker 1: What's up, everyone, and welcome to another episode of the
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Epstein Chronicles. Whenever the name Jeffrey Epstein gets brought up,
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the federal government is quick to have an explanation for
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what Jeffrey Epstein actually was and what he was up to.
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The only problem with that is that the official narrative,
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their official explanations very rarely, if ever, are true. And
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the more information that comes out via the files and
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people coming forward, the more obvious it is to anybody
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paying attention. And as I was making my way through
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the files, I stumbled upon a very interesting document that
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memorialized the analysis of a pen register and trap and
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trace on one of Epstein's telephone numbers. And according to
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this warrant, according to this analysis, Jeffrey Epstein and numbers
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associated with him were in touch with a lot of
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people an organized crime. And of course we know that
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Jeffrey Epstein was moving money and bundling money, and we
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know that people in the world of organized crime always
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need somebody like that to help them out. So was
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Epstein also bundling money for various transnational criminal groups? Very possible,
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very very possible, because remember, when you're somebody like Epstein,
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You're operating in a world filled with scumbags, so it
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makes sense that you're associating and doing business with other scumbags.
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So yesterday evening, when I saw this article from CBS,
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it caught my attention, mainly because it connects to this
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trapp Trace analysis that I was looking at. And when
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you start putting it all together, it certainly looks like
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this story that we're about to read from CBS has
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some legs. So let's dive into the article from CBS
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and let's see what they have for US headline. Newly
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earthed dea document from Epstein files raises question did Epstein
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facilitate drug trafficking? This article was authored by Daniel Rutnik,
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Pat Milton, and Kara Tabashnik. Jeffrey Epstein was the subject
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of a previously undisclosed US Drug Enforcement Agency investigation, a
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five year plus probe targeting him and fourteen other individuals
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for suspicious money transfers possibly linked to illegal narcotics. A
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newly uncovered document in the Department of Justice Epstein files reveals,
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Now you take that with what we know about him
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being active in Afghanistan, and it makes me wonder if
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he had anything to do with those poppy fields, you know,
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the ones that we defended and protected so vigilantly and
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so diligently while we were in Afghanistan. Yeah, those poppy fields.
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I mean, we know that Prince Andrew was passing sensitive
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information about Afghanistan to Jeffrey Epstein. So what was the purpose?
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What kind of interest could a man like Jeffrey Epstein
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have in a place Afghanistan? Can't be too many, right,
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I mean, it's not like Afghanistan has some incredible financial
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sector that all these guys have to get in on.
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So what would motivate Epstein to want to be in Afghanistan? Unless,
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of course he was there moving arms, which is very
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possible as well. DEA reporting indicates the above individuals are
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involved in illegitimate wire transfers which are tied to illicit
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drug and or prostitution activity is occurring in the US
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Virgin Islands and New York City. The twenty fifteen document says, well,
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I wonder why nothing happened. Could it possibly be that
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Jeffrey Epstein's protected? I mean, who would have ever guessed?
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Who would have ever jumped to that conclusion? Oh, that's right.
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Anybody who's saying anybody who's following along, because let me
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tell you, if the DEA has you under investigation for
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five years, chances are something wrong and they're gonna tell you.
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But of course Jeffrey Epstein, well, no problems for him.
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One phone call and it's all good. The sixty nine
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page memo is marked law Enforcement Sensitive and remains heavily redacted,
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concealing the names of the fourteen other targets and much
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of the substantive detail surrounding the investigation. Now, look, I'm
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not gonna tell you that Jeffrey Epstein was out here
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selling packs down in Battery Park. That's not what they're
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talking about. He was financing something, being involved as a
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money guy, put money up for this to happen or
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that to happen, and then benefiting on the back end.
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That's how it works. It's just like any other investment.
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Puts up some money, the job gets done, and he
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gets paid. Now, obviously that's a simplified way of thinking
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about it, but that gives you a basic idea of
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how a money man is involved in drug trafficking. Then,
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of course we always have to consider that he was
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bundling money and he was coloring it up and laundering
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it for insert criminal organization here. That's very possible too.
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And this is what I mean when I tell you
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that Jeffrey Epstein had his fingers in many pies. There's
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a lot of stuff that we haven't even begun to
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figure out yet. And when you have somebody with this
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kind of money, this kind of power, this kind of
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vast reach, it's inevitable that they're going to be involved
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in a lot of bad things. The document appears to
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stem from a request made by the DEA to an
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organized crime Drug Enforcement task Force Fusion Center in Virginia
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seeking information from other agencies related to Epstein and the
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other targets as part of an active case. How quick
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do you think is handler popped up and said, YO,
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leave this dude alone. Under no circumstances are you to
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charge Jeffrey Epstein kind of drug case? And that's how
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they do it. And for a guy like Jeffrey Epstein,
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knowing he has that kind of protection, it leads to
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all kinds of horrible things. The task Force is a
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Reagan era creation to combat a surge in cocaine trafficking,
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and the Fusion Center was opened in two thousand and
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nine as a clearinghouse for intelligence sharing between federal law
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enforcement agencies. Every time you turn around, there is another clue,
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another hint about Jeffrey Epstein being some sort of asset.
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I'm sure that mandelssh and Prince Andrew just passed him
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that information for fun, right, had nothing to do with
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Jeffrey Epstein collecting that information to benefit from it or
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for insert other person to benefit from it. Right. And
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then you look at all these investigations that Jeffrey Epstein
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was part of, and you look at the fact that
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he was never charged in any of these cases, and
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you have to ask yourself, what the hell's really going
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on here? And how comes somebody like Jeffrey Epstein was
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able to operate in plain sight even with this cloud
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hanging over them for so long. Do you know how
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quick your ass would be swooped up if you were
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a part of this ordeal, if you were involved in
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some DEA phone trace or whatever, forget it, you would
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be getting a colonoscopy like you couldn't believe. For the
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DEA to open a case, there would have to be
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a drug nexus, a law enforcement source told CBS News,
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adding that the request to the Fusion Center, indicated the
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matter was part of a significant investigation rather than a
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routine information inquiry. So there was probably some kind of serious,
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you know, criminal organization that was under the microscope, and
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Epstein was probably bundling money for them and got caught up.
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That seems to be the likeliest scenario here. The document
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includes a DEA case number and lists the case opening
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date is December seventeenth, twenty ten, in New York. It
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notes that the matter is judicial pending, indicating that the
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investing gation remained active at the time the memo was
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drafted five years later. One law enforcement source told CBS
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News that the designation suggests investigators may have been awaiting
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court approval for search warrants or other legal action. Yeah,
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that never came because Epstein's handler, whoever that is, or was,
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probably stepped in and said, look, no way, this guy's
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working on X, Y and Z for the government right now,
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and we can't have you guys getting in the way. Sorry,
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find somebody else to arrest. We don't care if he
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diddled kids, we don't care if he's involved with drug organizations.
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The means certainly justifies the ends, and that's the way
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they go about their business, even if that means nurturing
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and protecting a man like Jeffrey Epstein. Another law enforcement
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source said it likely meant an arrest of someone associated
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with the case had been made. CBS News cannot confirm
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that because the names of other targets were redacted from
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the document. Why why are other names redacted? There's no
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survivors here, There's nothing here that should be redacted. Is
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it national security? I doubt it. So why do you
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have the names redacted? Oh, that's right. You don't want
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people to be able to trace this and follow the
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money because if they do that, you know where it
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ends up, and so do the people in Langley. And
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that's why you see all this pushback, and that's why
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you see this being the issue that it is. A
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different case launched in twenty eighteen by the US Attorney's
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Office for the Southern District of New York ultimately landed
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Epstein in a Lower Manhattan federal jail after he was
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arrested in July twenty nineteen on charges of sex trafficking.
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Sources involved in that case told CBS News the prosecutors
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were not aware of the earlier DEA investigation, of course,
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not that information was segregated from the regular system. And
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why would that occur, Well, because Jeffrey Epstein was an
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asset pretty simple, was awaiting trial in the sex trafficking
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case when he died behind bars in August of twenty nineteen.
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His death was ruled a suicide. The DEA document also
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reveals the existence of other previously unknown investigations with some
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link to Epstein. Those include an ICE investigation in West
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Palm Beach opened in two thousand and six and closed
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in two thousand and eight, an ICE investigation in Las
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Vegas opened in two thousand and nine and listed as
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pending as of one twenty seven, twenty ten. An ICE
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investigation in Paris opened in June of twenty thirteen and
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closed months later titled Operation Angel Watch, and an FBI
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investigation opened in two thousand and six that still remained
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active in twenty fifteen. The ICE stuff has to do
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with their immigration bullshit, all those fake immigration scams they
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were running. That's what they were being looked at for.
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I mean, how obvious is it now? And when I
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tell you that Epstein was up to all kinds of
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wild shit, this is what I mean, it wasn't just
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sex trafficking, and he was getting help. Somebody in those
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immigration offices was helping Jeffrey Epstein out. The question is who.
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The document also lists prior law enforcement contact and identifies
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bank accounts linked to Epstein, including accounts in Switzerland, France,
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the Cayman Islands, and New York. It details approximately fifty
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million in suspicious wire transfers from twenty ten to twenty fifteen.
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Although the names of the individuals linked to those transactions
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are redacted, the DOJ appears to have accidentally neglected to
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redact the name of a Polish fashion model who was
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identified in connection to approximately two million in transfers and
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named as a target in the investigation. Yeah, Adriana Ross.
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They don't ever hear, but that's who it is. One
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of the corps for a baby. All these people out
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here are talking about, Oh, these women who helped Epstein,
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no shit, where you've been. And furthermore, roughly forty three
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percent of human traffickers or female who do you think
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ropes in the vast majority of these girls. Emails between
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that woman at Epstein were included in the release, indicating
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that they had a personal relationship. CBS News is not
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identifying the woman at the request of her attorney, who
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said she was a survivor of Epstein's Her attorney did
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not reply to inquiries about whether she was aware she
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was a dea target. Now, look, anyone who's trying to
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call the core four victims is crazy. The only one
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you could possibly say that about is na Eel marson Kova,
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and that's because she was sold allegedly at Epstein when
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she was fourteen. But the other girls, the other women,
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they came in with eyes open, they knew what was up,
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and still to this day, none of them have come forward.
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The memo also lists several businesses associated with Epstein that
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have come under scrutiny in the past. One of those
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companies was redacted. The other two are SLK Designs and Hyperionaire.
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Hyperion Air was used by Epstein as a holding company
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for his aircraft, and SLK Designs was run by two
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women who were included an Epstein so called sweetheart non
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prosecution agreement with a federal government and and as potential
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co conspirators potential huh okay sure potential. Records show those
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companies were formed and controlled by Epstein's attorney, Darren Endyke,
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huh or have you heard that name before? Interesting, isn't it.
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CBS News has reached out to an attorney foreign Dyke
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and has not received a response. In a prior statement,
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his attorney, Daniel Wiener, told CBS News the lawyer did
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not socialize with mister Epstein and rejected as categorically false
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any suggestion that he knowingly facilitated or assisted mister Epstein
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in his sexual abuse or trafficking of women, or that
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they were aware of mister Epstein's actions while they provided
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legal and accounting services to mister Epstein. He added that
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no judge or court found Epstein's attorney's committed any wrongdoing
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of any kind. Well, that's because there's never been a
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real investigation, stupid. There is plenty of evidence that Darren
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Indyke is dick deep in all of this, including structuring.
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So let's just cut the bullshit, okay, And if there's
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ever a real investigation, you can guarantee that you're a client,
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mister Indike will be a target. Senator Ron Wyden, a
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Democrat from Oregon who's been pursuing the Epstein investigation as
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a ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee told CBS
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News that following the money is key to learning more
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about Epstein's crimes. It appears Epstein was involved in criminal
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activity that went way beyond petifield and sex trafficking, which
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makes it even more outrageous that pound BONDI is sitting
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on several million on release files. Wyden said. Neither the
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DEA or the DOJ responded to request by CBS News
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for more information or comment. Well, look, I think it's
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rather obvious, folks, Epstein most certainly was being protected, and
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the more evidence that comes out, the harder it's going
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to be to deny that. For the federal government. Now,
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they're going to continue to do so, but I don't
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think it's going to be effective. And I think the
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further this moves, the more information that comes out, the
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more people are going to be convinced that not only
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was the DOJ and the federal government lying to them
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about Epstein, but when caught and called out, they doubled
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down and tried to cover it up. Because at some
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point even people who are like, oh, this is all
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just a coincidence, are going to say to themselves, how
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can it all just be a giant coincidence, because I
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think at this point it's obvious that there was something
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deeper and darker going on, and at the very least
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some people in the government were aware of what Jeffrey
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Epstein was and they continued to utilize him as an asset.
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And that's why they're fighting tooth and nail to keep
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all this private. They don't want anybody to know that
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they were actually running this dude, that he was an asset,
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that they were using them and all the while protecting
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them while he was abusing kids, laundering money, and god
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knows what else. But unfortunately for them, I think that
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the pieces are starting to fall into place, and you're
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starting to get a better picture of what went on
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here and why they're so hell bent on making sure
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that nobody knows the truth. And the more documentation like
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this that I see, the more I'm convinced that we're
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being lied to and that there's a cover up happening
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in real time. So, like usual, we're going to keep
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pound them away, and over the next couple of days,
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I'm going to add that trap trace document that I
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stumbled across, so all of you can get a look
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at it as well, and it's very interesting. I mean,
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we're talking about all kinds of criminal organizations that are
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being talked about in this Trapp trace. So it's going
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to be interesting to see how this one plays out,
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and like usual, we'll be here every step of the way.
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